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[–] Streetlights@lemmy.world 87 points 5 months ago (17 children)

Stop privatising infrastructure you maniacs.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 15 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Stop? Do you think it's continuing? They already are private ☺️.

What you should be saying is: Ask the government to raise billions to buy out private companies that own and operate the vital infrastructure of our country you maniacs!

Not being funny, but this is what you're calling for (nothing wrong with that) but what are you going to not fund whilst you spend money on this. Even Labour has pretty much said this isn't going to happen for this very reason.

[–] catch22@startrek.website 11 points 5 months ago

So essentially, what happened is billions (probably 100's at this point) of public money have been handed to private individuals and everyone is left in the shit, literally.

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